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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 24:22

Saul does not appear to have invited David to return to Gibeah, or to have given him any security of doing so with safety. David, with his intuitive sagacity, perceived that the softening of Saul’s feelings was only momentary, and that the situation remained unchanged.

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See also 1 Samuel 24:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 24:22. _SAUL WENT HOME_] Confounded at a sense of his own baseness, and overwhelmed with a sense of David's generosity. _DAVID AND HIS MEN GAT THEM UP UNTO THE HOLD._] _Went up to Miz...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 24 _ 1. In the wilderness of En-gedi (1 Samuel 24:1)_ 2. David's words to Saul (1 Samuel 24:9) 3. Saul's answer to David (1 Samuel 24:16) Saul continues in the pursuit of David and w

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 SAMUEL 24. DAVID SPARES SAUL AT ENGEDI (E). Chs. 24 and 26 give two versions of the same story, located at different places. Probably both versions are early. It is not clear which is the earlier, b...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOLD. stronghold....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _gat them up unto the hold_ Returned to the fastnesses of En-gedi. Experience had proved that Saul's repentance was not to be trusted....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Saul's momentary remorse 16. _my son David_ The old fatherly feeling revived. The generous loving heart of the old days had not yet utterly perished....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I KNOW WELL THAT THOU SHALT SURELY BE KING— He knew this, says St. Chrysostom, from David's manners, from his kingly virtues, as well as his uncommon success; but, above all, he knew his divine design...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Saul Accepts David's Plea._ 1 Samuel 24:16-22 16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, _Is_ this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE AT ENGEDI We have a similar incident narrated in 1 Samuel 26, and some critics hold that the two are merely varying accounts of the same event. But it. is to be noticed that...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 24 DAVID REFUSES TO KILL SAUL V1 When Saul had finished fighting the *Philistines he returned home. Someone told him that David was in the de...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL. — The generous son of Jesse at once complied with Saul’s curious request, and for a time, at least, the persecution and pursuit of David ceased. Stricken with remorse, the g...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[1 Samuel 24:23]_ וַ יִּשָּׁבַ֥ע דָּוִ֖ד לְ שָׁא֑וּל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXI. _ DAVID TWICE SPARES THE LIFE OF SAUL._ 1 Samuel 24:1; 1 Samuel 26:1. THE invasion of the Philistines had freed David from the fear of Saul for a time, but only for a time. He knew ful...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    KINDNESS WAKENS A BETTER SPIRIT 1 Samuel 24:16; 1 Samuel 25:1 David's noble self-restraint, followed as it was by no less noble words, awoke the best side of Saul's nature. Chords began to vibrate th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    At last Saul was in David's power. It would have been perfectly easy for him to have taken his life. He did not do so, but, withholding his hand, uttered a strong protest against Saul's persecution. T...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Father. David complied with this request as far as he was able: but, as God was resolved to punish the posterity of Saul, for the injury done to the Gabaonites, he was forced to give them all up, exc...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READ, my soul, in the character of this deluded, wretched, and unwise king of Israel, the sad history of every unrenewed man, by nature. Blind to all his own real interest and happiness; a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (16) В¶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. (17) And he said to...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    "And David went up and dwelt in the strongholds of Engedi." Saul pursues him thither, after following the Philistines, more occupied with his jealousy of the king whom God had chosen than with the ene...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL,.... That he would not cut, off his posterity; which oath he religiously observed, in sparing Mephibosheth, 2 Samuel 21:7, and in punishing the murderers of Ishbosheth, 2 Sam...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold. Ver. 22. _And David sware unto Saul._] The same in effect that he had sworn before to Jonathan. _ And...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _David and his men get them up unto the hold Of Engedi, 1 Samuel 24:1_. For having had so frequent experience of Saul's inconstancy, he would trust him no more. It is indeed dangerous to trust a recon...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Dauid in a caue at Engedi, hauing cut off Sauls skirt, spareth his life. 8 Hee sheweth thereby his innocencie. 16 Saul acknowledging his fault, taketh an oath of Dauid, and departeth. 1 AND it ca...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home, returned to his royal residence; BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN GAT THEM UP UNTO THE HOLD, for they knew better than to expect Saul to retain the kind disposition...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    SAUL ACKNOWLEDGES HIS FAULT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Having 600 men with him, David could not easily be hidden, and Saul gets the report of his being in the wilderness of En-gedi. Not being exactly a brave man himself, Saul required 3000 chosen men of I...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-22 Saul speaks as quite overcome with David's kindness. Many mourn for their sins, who do not truly repent of them; weep bitterly for them, yet continue in love and in league with them. Now God ma...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL. QUEST. How then could David destroy so many of Saul's sons, 2 SAMUEL 21:8,9 ? ANSW. David could bind himself by his oaths, but he could not bind God, to whose good pleasure all...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 24:22 David H1732 swore H7650 (H8735) Saul H7586 Saul H7586 went H3212 (H8799) home H1004 David...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID REVEALS HIMSELF TO SAUL AND DEMONSTRATES THAT HE HAS PROVED BY HIS RESTRAINT IN NOT KILLING HIM THAT HE IS TOTALLY LOYAL TO HIM (1 SAMUEL 24:8). Once Saul had left the cave David boldly revealed...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David's mercy to Saul in En-gedi. CHARACTERS: God, David, Saul. CONCLUSION: Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good. KEY WORD: Mercy (dealt well), 1 Samuel 24:18. STRONG VERSE...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Samuel 24:1. _En-gedi_ was adjacent to the dead sea. Strabo, speaking of the caverns in Syria and Iturea, says, there is one which will hold four thousand men. _Lib. 16._ 1 Samuel 24:3. _Saul went i...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Where was a cave and Saul went in _. .. _ and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave._ SAUL AND DAVID IN THE CAVE Saul’s animosity is a fire that finds constant fuel. No sooner are the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 24:1 The three episodes in the next three chapters all have the same theme: David, who as a warrior has already killed many of the Lord’s enemies, should not kill for his own...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 24:22 BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT UP TO THE STRONGHOLD. Despite Saul’s acknowledgment of David’s right to the throne (v. 1 Samuel 24:20), Dav

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 24:16. “AND SAUL LIFTED UP HIS VOICE.” “There is no hypocrisy or pretence here. Saul, tossed powerless hither and thither by fierce passions and without harmony...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ENGEDI (1Sa 23:29 -35-24). EXPOSITION DAVID SPARES SAUL'S LIFE IN A CAVE (1 Samuel 24:1)....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now it came to pass, when Saul was returned from the Philistines, they told him, David's in Engedi. So Saul took three thousand of his chosen men out of all of Israel, they went to seek David and his...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 23:29; John 2:24; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 10:17; Proverbs 2

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Unto the hold — Of En — gedi, 1 Samuel 24:1, for having had by frequent experience of Saul's inconstancy, he would trust him no more....

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